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...worked beautifully in mice. Now more than 50 angiogenesis inhibitors are being studied in humans with a wide range of cancers; a dozen are in the final stages of testing. Thus far, only a tiny number of human patients treated with these compounds have seen their tumors shrink or disappear. Clinicians are nonetheless encouraged; while angiogenesis inhibitors don't make cancer go away, they do appear to slow tumor growth. And that means they may work best in conjunction with some of the other new treatments to batter cancer from several directions at once...
...them to pump out a hormone that stimulates production of a host of immune cells, and vaccinated late-stage lung-cancer patients with the mixture to boost chances that dendritic cells would sound the alarm against the tumors. In the latest study, three of 22 patients saw their tumors disappear completely, and four saw them stop growing...
Unfortunately, current drug trials, even for new cancer treatments, are based on the old chemotherapy model. Success is measured by how much tumors shrink--or disappear--within a few days or weeks. Because angiogenesis inhibitors work on the blood vessels that feed tumors rather than on the tumors themselves, they usually take longer, sometimes as much as a few months, to show any effect...
Aisha didn't return. It was the kind of disappearance that is all too common in this part of West Africa, where war and chaos are as routine as the peace of an American suburb. Children disappear, sometimes kidnapped like Aisha by traders who sell them into slavery, sometimes split accidentally from their parents at refugee camps or nabbed by passing soldiers to join the fight. Thousands of children have been separated from their families by the civil war that started in Liberia in 1989, spread to Sierra Leone in 1991 and has now infected Guinea. Children with no parents...
...While this tremendous victory marks the end of one phase of our campaign for a living wage, we do not expect the Corporation’s coercive power to disappear, and we do not expect this fight to end. We do not need to harbor a utopian fantasy in order to recognize that Harvard’s administrators can and must treat people better and pay them better. So today’s victory cannot be anything but partial...